Animals
- Animals
A Spider’s Taste for Blood
Certain jumping spiders prey on mosquitoes that have drawn blood from animals.
By Emily Sohn - Animals
Bee heat cooks invaders
Certain honeybees in Asia use their body heat to kill attacking wasps.
By Emily Sohn - Animals
From Chimps to People
Although chimpanzees and people share many genes, there are key biological differences.
By Emily Sohn -
- Tech
Roboroach and company
Cockroaches and lobsters inspire robots that navigate in darkness and track smells.
By Sarah Webb - Animals
Who’s knocking?
Recordings of calls and drumming provide new evidence that the ivory-billed woodpecker survives.
By Emily Sohn - Animals
Walktopus
Some octopuses can walk, using two of their eight arms to scoot backward.
By Emily Sohn - Animals
Sleepless at Sea
Some marine moms and babies stay awake for weeks after the infants are born.
By Emily Sohn -
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- Health & Medicine
Nature’s medicines
Projects by young scientists show how plants and animals in nature can be a source of new medicines.
By Emily Sohn - Animals
New mammals
Wildlife biologists have discovered a new type of monkey and an unusual rodent.
By Emily Sohn